Wednesday, December 20, 2006

snowflakes

I was one of those kids who was addicted to wasting classroom time in December making paper snowflakes. Click on the above icon and you can do the same, with no paper clutter to clean up, and at the same time contribute to The Salvation Army's 2006 Holiday Flake-a-Thon.The science of snowflakes here.(For those of you who wonder where I come up with this stuff, I'd be nothing without Rudy.)

hey girley,up to me eyeballs in truffles! yummmm.i am getting really fat with all this cheer.the "new years" cards are going out soon ... get it? well, you will get one! the wisdom teeth set us back a tad, so am lowering my standards and relaxing!xosusan

Thanks to my new Geographic I discovered that a snowflake's shape depends on the temperature at which it is formed.

From 0 to -5 flakes crystallize as plates and dendrites -5 to -10 needles and hollow columns and past that they return to dendrites and plates...this makes me sound pretty flakey doesn't it?Andrea thanks for being such a great sport in 06 and have a great holiday.This year you get to sing 'the weather outside is frightful'...I hope that it stops soon.